. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. nous in W. Europe, hnt generallyimported from the Levant. It eontains a cam-l)hor-like principle, and a bitter essence whieli iscomliined with gallic acid. It is used in veterinarymedicine, and as an ingredient in most of thecephalic snulis. Asbestos, Amianthus, or Mountain Flax,[hnt. (tmiaiUlins asbestinum; Ger. (tsbert; Fr. ami-antlte; Sp. nsbr:sto, alumhre de plmna ; Port, asbes-tos ; It. asbesto,] a mineral (Fig. 18), of whichthere are several varieties, all more or less fibrous,flexible, and elastic,
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. nous in W. Europe, hnt generallyimported from the Levant. It eontains a cam-l)hor-like principle, and a bitter essence whieli iscomliined with gallic acid. It is used in veterinarymedicine, and as an ingredient in most of thecephalic snulis. Asbestos, Amianthus, or Mountain Flax,[hnt. (tmiaiUlins asbestinum; Ger. (tsbert; Fr. ami-antlte; Sp. nsbr:sto, alumhre de plmna ; Port, asbes-tos ; It. asbesto,] a mineral (Fig. 18), of whichthere are several varieties, all more or less fibrous,flexible, and elastic, some very coni|)act, and capa-ble of being reduced to inipalpalile fibre. It is in-consumable by a liigh degree of heat, and in an-tiquity the art was discovered of drawing the fibresinto threads, and then weaving them into the Tarentaise of Savoy, a variety of A. exists,of which the threads are entirely separated, andof a brilliant whiteness, and capable of being elon-gated to ujJwards of ten times their original and even lace have been prepared from the. A. derived from this locality. Paper has alsobeen made of it. The varieties of A. are twistedA., which is of a dirty gray or , and sometimes exists in thick spongy pieces,being then vulgarly flesh; sometimes itresembles, and is called, fossil cork; occasionally,when of a hard, membraneous cliaracter, is calledfossil leather; and the thinner and more flexiblekinds of the same character are termed/os»i7 woolly A, is of a reddish-brown color, andresembles splinters of wood. A. is used to a con-siderable extent for burning in ga-s-stoves; incom-bustible ))apcr has befti made from it. A. isfound in Piedmont, Savoy, Salzburg, the Tyrol,Dauiiliinc, , Corsica, Cape of GoodlliilH, N. of , and Siberia. An ordinary(piality of but liltle value is found at Staten Island, New York. A. of various is alsofound abundantly in other parts
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